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Tariq Panja

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⚽️💰🚓 Co-author Football's Secret Trade| NYT Global Sports Correspondent| ✉️tariq.panja@nytimes.com |tariq.panja@protonmail.com|

  1. West Ham look extremely short of players. The opposite of Chelsea whose cupboards are overflowing. Soft at the back, slow in the middle, slow in attack (barring Bowen). Dreadful so far.

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  2. I’d been fascinated by a mystery all summer. It was an itch I had to scratch. A question burning in my brain.

    Was…was Indy Kaila now a legitimate news source?

    An investigation into the man/men/myth legend who has dominated this transfer (gossip) window. observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...

    For 13 years an anonymous social media account has posted transfer gossip to the delight – and despair – of fans

    The myth and mystery of Indy Kaila: the X account that ‘w...

    For 13 years an anonymous social media account has posted transfer gossip to the delight – and despair – of fans

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  3. Infantino to Trump: only the FIFA president, presidents of countries and then those who win can touch it because this is for winners only and since you are winner of course you can touch it.

    Somewhat absently-mindedly he forget to mention the time his good pal touched it.

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  4. Are Alexander Isak's actions this summer 'player power'? Or do you only do a sad Instagram story if you actually don't have any power?

    Discussed on today's @liberopodcast.bsky.social alongside @rorysmith.bsky.social and @jonawils.bsky.social

    pod.fo/e/31902b

    The biggest story of this summer’s transfer window is Alexander Isak. The Newcastle United striker is so desperate for a move that he has not been training with Newcastle United, and on Tuesday n...

    Libero: Libero 046: Alexander Isak v Newcastle: A Player Power Battle

    The biggest story of this summer’s transfer window is Alexander Isak. The Newcastle United striker is so desperate for a move that he has not been training with Newcastle United, and on Tuesday n...

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  5. There's something irredeemably cynical about Coinbase's new ad campaign. No longer are they making the positive case for crypto; now it's "your life is in the toilet, how much worse can it get?"

    A Tube ad for Coinbase. The line "everything is fine" is written in small type, hundreds and hundreds of times, with blank space spelling out the message "Real wages stuck in 2008" and the tagline: If everything's fine, don't change anything
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